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Welcome To The Lost Horizons
National Forum
You'll find an
entry link below, but first...
RULES
"This is Liberty Hall-- you can spit on the mat and
call the cat a bastard"
That being said... Profanity, racial, ethnic, religious
or cultural slurs, and disagreeable (that is, sustained,
vicious or irrational) ranting or flaming are
prohibited. Discussion subjects should be confined
to those consistent with Lost Horizon's general
philosophical mission-- the defense of Liberty and the
Rule of Law.
Anyone looking for something to
talk about is invited to visit
The Bulletin Board and the
Newsletter Archive for inspiration; and all
participants interested in the "income" tax-- which
tends to be a popular subject of discussion here-- are
encouraged to read the posted comments on
'"income" tax misunderstandings'. Related
'current event' topics are welcome.
Regardless of
the topic, posts should maintain a demeanor of dialogue
or observation, rather than a harangue or disquisition. This is a forum, not a soapbox.
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It is to be understood by all that anything posted to
this Forum is solely the opinion of that participant;
and no matter what may be read here, every individual is
responsible for his or her own overall education,
conclusions and decisions.
It must also be
understood that some opinions expressed here-- even some
expressed forcefully, prolifically and with great
confidence-- are COMPLETE NONSENSE, if not
outright deliberate efforts to mislead or misinform
(observation of which will lead to the revocation of
posting privileges).
The insistence of
some in clinging to pet "theories" about Social Security
numbers, citizenship or residency, OMB numbers, and
innumerable other distractions from the truth--
especially in light of the complete absence of evidence
of the veracity of these "theories" (and much evidence
to the contrary), the complete disagreement of the law
with such "theories", and the endlessly demonstrated,
seamless, comprehensive and exclusive accuracy of what
is taught on this site, and in CtC-- is astonishing, to
say the least.
Click here for more on this important subject.
Visitors are strongly encouraged to keep
this in mind, and to read
'Cracking the Code'-- and all the material
throughout losthorizons.com-- for themselves, in order to sort out the
wheat from the chaff. Participants are required to
do so.
Understand clearly: The forums do not exist to
provide venues in which some folks can be made to spend
their time and energy explaining to others why various
notions, theories or silver-bullets which appear nowhere
either in
CtC or on this site (but are nonetheless floating
around-- or raging through-- the "tax honesty"
community) are incorrect or irrelevant.
I will say as plainly as possible what I have by
necessity said many times before, but usually with more
circumspection (and can't seem to say often enough):
Any and all notions concerning the nature of the
"income" tax-- how it is applied, why it can be thus
applied, how it interfaces with the legal system and so
forth-- which are not taught in
CtC
or on this site
(exclusive of forum posts, of course) are just
inherently wrong or are entirely irrelevant to the tax.
They are raised or promoted either in ignorance or for
ill purposes.
Such notions should not be debated or discussed-- doing
either is a waste of valuable time and energy. There is one kind of simple response that is appropriate
when presented with "alternative" or "supplemental"
notions of this sort:
"You didn't find that in
CtC or on
losthorizons.com, so put it out of your mind.
Here is what is actually true about that aspect of
the tax..."
or,
"That notion has already been shown to be
erroneous at [the relevant "misunderstandings"
page]..."
or,
"Since there is no actual (or unambiguous)
evidence demonstrating the accuracy of the contrary
or disputatious notion you advocate, while on the
other hand a huge, constantly-growing body of every
conceivable kind of evidence-- including even the
nuanced character of governmental efforts to
discourage the CtC-educated-- unmistakably
demonstrates the complete accuracy of CtC, why are
you bringing this up? What is your real
agenda?"
If this gentle approach isn't effective, direct your
correspondent here. If that doesn't suffice, let me
know so that I can remove this individual-- now revealed
as either uneducable or a deliberate "agent
provocateur"-- from the forum.
The Forum is also not a place
for asking and answering even seemingly CtC-respectful
questions about what to do or how to do it.
Questions should be confined to, "Where do I find
material on _____ in CtC or on losthorizons.com; and
answers should be confined to directing the questioner
accordingly.
Keep in mind that those who wish to keep the truth
spinning its wheels, and making as little forward
progress as possible, routinely and systematically
exploit two basic human foibles:
1. The natural tendency of those whose education is
incomplete to mistake sporadic, creative (and carefully
indirect)-- but well publicized-- tax agency resistance
to a few educated filings as meaning that there is some
piece of the puzzle missing (imagining that otherwise,
the generations-old scam that even now continues to
successfully bamboozle 180 million Americans 24/7 would
have just thrown in the towel and abandoned the field,
rather than continue to cast about for some
silver-bullet of its own that will frighten or confuse
students of the truth into retreat or disarray); and
2. The equally natural tendency of everyone to be
attracted to notions that are presented as, or appear to
be, resistance-risk-reducing tricks or short-cuts.
Thus, there is a constant effort to seed the "tax
honesty" community (and
CtC forums directly) with notions designed to invoke
both of these unfortunate tendencies in order to
distract forum participants from their primary purposes
of:
I rely on everyone posting here to help keep this forum
in focus, and productive. Posts amounting to offenses of
the sort described above, persistent straying from the
three primary purposes of the forum, or evidence of a
failure to keep current with the Lost Horizons
newsletters may result in removal from the forum
without prior notice.
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On a related note, absolutely NO inferences are to be
drawn from my participating, or not participating in a
thread; or responding or not responding to a post (which
would be exclusively as 'PH' or 'ForumAdmin'-- I do not
use any pseudonyms). I cannot and will not
participate in every thread or respond to every post,
even those that request such a response. When I
do, it is generally more a matter of timing than of the
virtue of the thread or post. Indeed, I do not
even read all posts. I'm just one man, and there
are only so many hours in the day.
-PH
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